THE weather, which up until Easter had been good for several weeks, turned unkind for the holiday with sleet, hail and a tempest over the two-daybreak.

THE recent drought had resulted in the going being hard at the Chaddesley Corbett point-to-point meeting and which resulted in only 27 runners for the five races. The popular Pat Rushton, from Phepson near Droitwich, won the ladies' event on her own horse Episil.

HEARING that Hadzor church was to stage its first wedding since her own 22 years before, a Guernsey woman sent flowers to decorate the building. Miss Margaret Brazier, of Shernal Green, was to wed Norman Hatfield, of St Richard's Gardens, Droitwich.

A SUGGESTION by the county's chief fire officer to build Bromsgrove's new station on allotments at the rear of Churchfields Close, between Churchfields and Crabtree Lane, was deemed not to be a good idea by the town council, who were set to object.

THE Messenger office shop was one of the first in the town to advertise its wide range of outdoor coronation decorations. It had flags from 6d (2.5p) to 7/6 (37.5p), shields at 1/- (5p) and gold crowns from 1/1 (5.5p) to 2/6 (12.5p).